

I didn’t take it as a critique of Ente, not to worry! I’m not affiliated in any way, I just wanted to provide some context to people who may be concerned about the vendor locking aspect specifically.
Of course how you manage your media, your needs and your finances are all a very personal matter, I also self-host my photo backup, but I use ente in a complementary fashion, and I don’t backup everything to it. It just makes it convenient to collect, share and aggregate media between ente members and non-members.
Cheers!
Funnily, my mind first made me consider pressure by Microsoft to raise the steam version cost to make it a less attractive proposition compared to the windows version, before realizing this was a tariff reaction. Goes to show how I imagine Microsoft’s powers and intentions in my mind :)